Aramark, Philadelphia, announced a new 2025 sustainability plan, Be Well. Do Well., focused on positively impacting people and the planet.

Aurora Organic Dairy, Boulder, Colo., published its 2019 Sustainability Report, which provides a detailed and transparent update on the company.

Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Mass., and more than 1,700 independent scientists penned the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” which called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided.”

Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Canada, announced a step forward on its sustainability journey, as it becomes what is said to be the first major food company in the world to be carbon neutral.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., and Dominion Energy, Richmond, Va., are doubling their investment in renewable natural gas (RNG) projects across the United States to $500 million through 2028.

Gestion AgrIA, Canada, received a $4.7 million financial contribution from the Government of Quebec through the Green Fund to complete a key research project designed to help growers boost their productivity while significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Blue Diamond Growers is the recipient of the California Energy Commission Food Production Investment Program grant, which will allow the Sacramento, Calif., headquarters facility to install a new boiler system and save 1,350 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Washington, D.C., unveiled a new initiative identifying U.S. retailers committed to taking leadership action to reduce potent greenhouse gases used in cooling, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).